Large firms ask junior staff to work up to four days a week in the office

Accountancy, financial services and legal companies see office-based work as important aspect of development and training, while in other sectors such as IT and telecoms, hybrid work is standard

Michael McAteer, managing partner of Grant Thornton Ireland: ‘We’re offering trainees the option to work remotely one day a week, so there is a bit of flexibility there’.Picture: Fergal Phillips

Some of the country’s largest professional services firms are asking trainees and graduate employees to spend up to four days a week in the office now that Covid-19 public health rules have been relaxed, the Business Post has learned.

Accountancy, financial services and legal firms are asking younger staff members and new recruits to return to office-based working for up to four days a week as they see it as an important part to their ...